ABSTRACT
Faculty in academia, especially in the social sciences and liberal arts, proceed through a fairly standard series of stages in their academic careers. The story of Mary Smith looks like a relatively smooth trajectory from acceptance into a doctoral program through tenure and promotion to associate professor. At each stage, there are well-marked and well-understood hurdles to be passed, together with regular assessment of individual performance on research, teaching, and service. Lukas, while in the PhD program at University X, is working on a good paper that he likes very much. He wants to give the paper at a conference where he can get some good feedback prior to submitting it for publication in a journal. Kayla has been working for a year, building a dataset for her dissertation. This dataset extends the original dataset provided by her dissertation chair by adding new variables and years. Kayla's dissertation chair has several publications out of the original dataset.
